I have been thinking about this for a long time, and it just came to me that it is related to this thread. I think the time has come to take Watir support to the next level.
Have you heard about site called Stack Overflow? I use it all the time. Created by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky. If you do not know who they are just google them. How it works? You log in with openid, ask question, tag it with watir. There is a feed for the tag. We subscribe to the feed and answer questions. It is the future of support. It is a very useful merge of support forum, digg and wiki with features like tagging questions, closing duplicate questions (with link to original question), voting on good questions and answers (so good and interesting questions and answers float to the top). Since it is also a wiki, questions and answers can be edited (including adding and removing tags). When you type a title for the question and start typing the body, it automatically searches the site and displays similar questions under the title. Just what we need. No more "please search before you ask". The site searches for you. There are some watir questions already there, but not much. I have put some to try things out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/watir http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/firewatir Watin folks use it much more: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/watin You get points for each up vote you get. There are also badges. Makes answering questions more like a game. There is added benefit. If we get a question that is for example more ruby related, we can tag it with ruby (if it is not already tagged) and then all users that follow that tag will see it and probably answer. We could close this group, or leave it only for discussion, and move all support to Stack Overflow. We could make this group moderated, and approve only discussion posts, and reject all support with a note to post ti to Stack Overflow. If we agree on that, I volunteer to do that for the next month, and probably longer if needed. More information: http://stackoverflow.com/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow If anybody wants to know more about it, just ask. If this is not appropriate place to talk about it, sent your question to me directly. What do you think? Has the time to move come? Or do you think we should stay here for now? Željko --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
